This is version 1.0 of the public replication archive for: Michael Bang Petersena, Mathias Osmundsen, and Kevin Arceneaux. The "Need for Chaos" and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors". 

Files included in this replication archive:
 
- Main Directory:
 	- study1.R:study8.R 
	- libraries.R
	- construct_fig2_3_4_S2.R
	- replicate_ALL.R
	- supplementary_materials.pdf
	- variables_overview.pdf
- "Data" folder
  	- study1.dta 
	- study2.dta 
	- study3.dta 
	- study4.dta 
  	- study5.dta 
	- study6.dta 
	- study7.dta 
	- study8.dta 
- "Data_recoded" folder
	- EMPTY
- "Figures" folder
	- EMPTY

Notes:
 - Users of this replication file should leave the directory structure
 unchanged and set the working directory to the main directory where the .R files are located. - Running "study1.R" through "study8.R" and, subsequently, "construct_fig2_3_4_S2.R" will take ".dta" data sets from "Data" folder, recode key variables, run analyses in main text and supplementary materials, and save all figures as .pdfs in main text and supplementary materials in "Figures" folder. The "libraries.R" file in the main directory installs and loads packages used throughout the analyses. Running "replicate_ALL.R" accomplishes all steps in move.    
- Table 1, Table 2 and Figure 1 of the main text as well as Table S1 of the Supplementary Materials are not based on the data and so cannot be reproduced by running the code. 
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